Abstract
Educational hackathons offer a unique learning opportunity for participants. They provide a platform for individuals to learn new skills, collaborate with others, and solve complex problems while working on real-world projects and gaining hands-on experience. This approach is particularly rewarding when used to connect universities across continents and to partner with international NGOs. This paper will outline how one university in the US partnered with another in the UAE to create a hackathon that was focused on media ideas aimed at spurring on mental health awareness campaigns specifically for the global NGO, Médecins Sans Frontières. For this event, students from both countries collaborated in teams to develop proposals focused on mental health awareness. In the paper, we will describe how hackathons can bring students together across the world in order for learners to discuss relevant and trending events. We also provide 10 suggestions as to why hackathons can be beneficial and some ways to increase success.
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Katherine Green, The Chicago School, United States
Kelly Torres, The Chicago School, United States
Paper Information
Conference: WorldCALL2023
Stream: Collaborative Learning and Telecollaboration / Virtual Exchange
This paper is part of the WorldCALL2023 Conference Proceedings (View)
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To cite this article:
Green K., & Torres K. (2024) Creating Innovative Educational Hackathons as a Means for International Institutions to Collaborate While Also Assisting NGOs ISSN: 2759-1182 – WorldCALL2023: Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2759-1182.2023.1
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2759-1182.2023.1
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